Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce Matthew Lax as Associate Director. Based in New York, Lax will focus on maintaining and expanding client relationships with the gallery’s East Coast audience, while also working closely with our New York based artists. He will continue the gallery’s commitment to world-class art fair presentations and expand the gallery’s visibility across new platforms.

Lax draws from over six years with the gallery and a decade-long experience living in Los Angeles. In this time, he has closely worked with many of the artists who are foundational to Vielmetter’s program. An accomplished filmmaker and writer himself, Lax previously held positions at Princeton University Art Museum, MASS MoCA, and several other galleries, alongside organizing independent curatorial projects.

Lax has long demonstrated a passion for the arts and interdisciplinary community engagement, and is excited to continue championing the rigorous work for which Vielmetter is known.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to announce the recent acquisition of Mary Kelly’s Calculus by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, MN.

Mary Kelly’s conceptual works and pedagogical practice have played an influential role in shaping the discourses of feminism and postmodernism. Through her large-scale narrative installations, Kelly fuses together the personal and the political and investigates how identity and subjectivity are formed. Calculus is the most recent in a three-part series of works, together with Cicatrix and Lacunae, that comprise a larger project titled Addendum, which premiered in 2024 at the Whitney Biennial. The series meditates on the process of aging, drawing attention to unacknowledged and difficult to articulate gaps and losses that accrue with the passage of time. Cicatrix meticulously records the artist’s post-surgical mammography, Lacunae juxtaposes Kelly’s personal calendars with the ages of her deceased friends, and Calculus features over a decade of handwritten notations of Kelly’s blood pressure and pulse measurements. The occasional exclamation is written in red pen in the margins when the data shows alarming fluctuations, and an ominous round scorch mark in the center of the paper progresses throughout the series until it nearly obfuscates the written information, not unlike the progression of an eclipse.

In this work, Kelly has returned to autobiographical narrative and an examination of the intimate artefacts of daily life that made her seminal work, Post-Partum Document (1973-79), so provocative when it was first exhibited.

We want to sincerely thank Executive Director Mary Ceruti and Chief Curator Henriette Huldisch at the Walker Art Center for supporting this significant acquisition.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is excited to announce the promotion of Olivia Gauthier to Gallery Director. Since joining the gallery in 2018, Gauthier has played a critical role in liaising with the gallery’s artists and in expanding the gallery’s program by introducing new artists such as Mario Joyce, Shanna Waddell, and Nate Lewis. In her new role, Gauthier will continue to work closely with the gallery’s artists across exhibitions, art fairs, and special projects, as well as developing collector relationships.

In her previous roles as Artist Liaison and Associate Director, Gauthier successfully managed and coordinated notable museum exhibitions, including Whitney Bedford’s The Window at the San Luis Obispo Museum of Art; Hayv Kahraman’s Look Me in the Eyes at ICA San Francisco and the Frye Art Museum; and Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage at the Frist Art Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Phillips Collection. She has also been instrumental in facilitating significant acquisitions of gallery artists’ works by prestigious institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; UCI Art Museum; Lucas Museum of Narrative Art; and the Blanton Museum.

Susanne Vielmetter remarks, “Olivia Gauthier has demonstrated a thoughtful and enthusiastic support of our artists over the years, both in helping them make solid decisions on a day-to-day basis and ensuring that their exhibitions at the gallery are successful and well planned. I am thrilled to offer her the opportunity to now take on a more significant role in shaping our program and artist roster and to participate in building the gallery’s legacy”.

In addition to her work at the gallery, Gauthier is an accomplished arts writer, having contributed essays and reviews to publications including CARLA, The Brooklyn Rail, BOMB, and Art in America.

Gauthier’s appointment as Director reinforces Vielmetter Los Angeles’ commitment to cultivating meaningful artistic dialogues and expanding the gallery’s influence in contemporary art in Los Angeles and beyond.

Vielmetter Los Angeles is delighted to announce the acquisition of Tâm Văn Trần’s If Not For Your Love ll by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

If Not For Your Love ll (2024) is a stoneware sculpture in the shape of a divination jar. Two scenes of colliding characters and forms play out on opposing sides of the vessel. One side depicts a tumultuous seascape filled with vibrant aquatic and airborne organisms, while the other side features an ambling horse in luminous shades of blue and red against a dusky landscape. Scattered among and between these characters are rectangles, lines, and starbursts of thick glaze that alternatingly divide and connect the dynamic creatures.

The chaotic landscapes evoke exhilaration, danger, and beauty – some of the animals bare ferocious teeth and wide, determined eyes, while others cower and camouflage with the surrounding flora. The kaleidoscopic ceramic glaze conjures the disorienting and bewildering experience of migration, something Trần identifies with intimately. The scenes illustrate the chaos of escaping home to an unfamiliar land, the shift from daylight to dusk, the spaces between land, sky, and sea. The characters exist within a compressed space of interconnected relationships, not dissimilar to life in a fish tank or the complexities of a household dynamic. In If Not For Your Love ll, Trần continues his exploration of abstraction, collage and the language of painting, while playfully introducing cartoon-like elements and figures to his raucous compositions.

We want to express our gratitude to the Curatorial Department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art for supporting this significant acquisition.

Congratulations to Mary Kelly who has received an honorary doctorate from the University of the Arts London in recognition of her significant contributions to the feminist and postmodernism art movements.With a career spanning over 4 decades, Mary Kelly is one of the most influential contemporary artists today. Born in 1941, Mary graduated from the College of Saint Teresa in Minnesota, before crossing the Atlantic to study painting in Florence and later attending Central Saint Martins—known at the time as Saint Martin’s School of Art—where she earned a postgraduate certificate in painting.

Not long after graduating, Mary had her first solo show in 1976 at the London Institute of Contemporary Art, where she exhibited her career-defining work Post-Partum Document. The work is now considered one of the most important pieces of feminist conceptual art of the 20th century, exploring the socio-political intersections of identity, motherhood, and feminism. In 1985, Mary became the Artist-in-residence at Kettle’s Yard and Murray Edwards College, where she began work on her large-scale series Interim. She continued to develop the series and exhibited the complete work at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York in 1990.

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including a retrospective at the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester, and major surveys at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Centre for Contemporary Art in Warsaw. She has also participated in prestigious exhibitions such as the Whitney Biennial, the Biennale of Sydney, and Documenta 12. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and honorary doctorates from Wolverhampton University, Lund University and the University of the Arts Helsinki.

During her tenure as a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, she established the Interdisciplinary Studio program in 1997—pioneering an innovative approach to arts education and research. She currently serves as Judge Widney Professor at the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California.

Mary Kelly in her Studio, Los Angeles, 2024. Photo Credit: Kelly Barrie.

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Hugo McCloud’s work Dislocated Origins (2022-2024) will be on view at the Fenix Museum of Migration in Rotterdam as part of the inaugural exhibition All Directions on view beginning May 16th. Created specifically for the Fenix Museum, McCloud’s work, made out of single-use plastic bags, captures a fragment of the story of movement and migration—a fragment filled with layers, both literal and metaphorical.

“Migrating is a necessity. But walking the same route for generations became a ritual.” – Hugo McCloud

Photo credit: Hugo McCloud, Dislocated Origins, 2023-2024, Collection Fenix ©TITIA HAHNE

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Vielmetter Los Angeles congratulates Bari Ziperstein on receiving the 2025 Visionary Award from the Craft Contemporary. The museum will honor Ziperstein at the Benefit & Auction this Saturday, May 10th. Ziperstein is being recognized for her contributions to the field, pushing the boundaries of ceramics through her practice.

Materially experimental but conceptually driven, Ziperstein’s work engages ideas of consumerism, propaganda, and the built environment. Her objects and sculptural tableaux reflect her interest in the political dimensions of capitalist economies and challenge the construction of desire and aspiration in contemporary American culture through a historical lens.

Ziperstein pushes the limits of scale, experiments with color and finish, and uses the shapes and surfaces of her sculptures to tell stories and convey ideas. She approaches her work from an intersectional feminist position, asking questions about how women and women’s work are positioned within societal frameworks, and her work reflects her interest in the ways that art and other visual and spatial materials convey meaning. Ziperstein’s process often starts with research and archival materials to explore the ways that visual culture and the built environment signal repressive social and political ideologies.

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Congratulations to Liz Glynn on receiving the 2025-26 Joseph H. Hazen Rome Prize in the Visual Arts Field!

During the residency, Glynn will construct a new body of work exploring “spolia,” defined as architectural elements taken from their original context and reused in new construction. By researching and visiting various sites in a region historically shaped by conquest, selective memories, and destruction, Glynn’s ultimate goal is to create sculptures using traditional materials that reflect acts of seizure and recontextualization, deconstructing the hegemony of empire and the aesthetics of imperialism amidst today’s global shift away from democratic ideals.

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Vielmetter Los Angeles is thrilled to announce the acquisition of Mario Joyce’s work He Hears Echoes (2024) into the collection of the Columbia Museum of Art, located in Columbia, South Carolina.

Acquired from Joyce’s recent exhibition Spirit, Spirit, with the gallery, the work is a monumental triptych that embodies the artist’s distinctive painting practice. In He Hears Echoes, Joyce imagines how family tales transform into lived experiences. A figure, reminiscent of a self-portrait, floats across the canvases, grounded by blackened earth and a bright yellow sky. His body is composed of collaged materials featuring psychedelic imagery from the 1960s and ’70s, reflecting the inner turmoil and confusion of that era, both socially and politically, which still resonates today. The use of embedded soil from Joyce’s family farm roots the work in a narrative of heritage, place, and remembrance.

Joyce’s work will be exhibited in the museum’s newly installed collection galleries in January of 2026 to celebrate the institution’s 75th anniversary.

In 2021, the FENIX Museum of Migration commissioned Hugo McCloud to create a large-scale panel artwork centered on migration.

The result, titled Dislocated Origins (2022-2024), is an impressive composition that spans over twenty-three feet. It reflects the artist’s ongoing exploration of the intersection between figuration and abstraction. The piece is created using McCloud’s distinctive technique that incorporates single-use plastic merchandise bags on the panel.

The FENIX Museum of Migration, located in the former Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is the first museum dedicated to global migration.

Opening on May 16, 2025, the museum’s inaugural exhibition, titled All Directions: Art That Moves You, will feature works by artists such as Francis Alÿs, Cornelia Parker, and Do Ho Suh. The exhibition will also debut a series of commissioned pieces by international artists, including McCloud’s Dislocated Origins.

Please find a link to a short video created by The Fenix Museum and Hugo McCloud, documenting the general process surrounding the creation of Dislocated Origins.